Meet with daisi and  John Whitehead, John Bradford, Simon Ovens and Ed Tomlin from South Dartmoor Community College in Ashburton. We ran through some potential ideas that could be realised by the end of the summer term. Discussing how using creativity to make the local area and issues of society and citizenship come alive for young people, and how we can establish new and lasting connections between schools and their communities.

Two possible projects might happen. One would be to discover a new understanding of our past, present and future through research, conversation and survey’s comparing and contrasting opinions of those living and working in the region. This project combines art, history and anthropology for an investigative look at people, places, and stories and how they contribute to our collective understanding of who we are. The children will become detectives, searching out clues to the town’s past and present.

Together we will form a production team and produce a newspaper. Children take on roles, which they have to apply for. Editor, reporter, copywriter, photographer, production manager, art editor, illustrator, sound editor, web input.

We will document the environment using writing, sound and photography. We will then edit our research and combine this with autographical skills to create our newspaper.